Post-Graduate Study

The honour of addressing you at the oustet of another official year falls to me. I understand the rule in the election of president to be, out of three years one year for Bath, alternating with two consecutive years for Bristol. It is not very often that a country doctor is the recipient of the distinction, so I feel all the more deeply the honour which has been conferred upon me by the members of the branch and the Council of the Bath and Trowbridge divisions in my selection as president of the sixth largest branch of the British Medical Association. With the Association I can claim a long connection, having been a member for upwards of twenty-seven years, and having attended eighteen of the general meetings, besides many of the local ones. When I settled in Frome in 1882 my